The surgeon general of the U.S. Navy combines two professions: he is both an officer and a doctor. Last week Rear Admiral Lamont Pugh laid aside his delicate medical instruments, loaded his heaviest rifles with armor-piercing shells and fired a broadside at doctors & dentists who try to duck service in the armed forces.
"Since when," Pugh asked the Association of Military Surgeons, "has the doctor of medicine and dentistry become such a pantywaist as to require that a bald responsibility, which others accept with good grace, must be decked out with certain frills before he will buy it?" Pugh brushed aside...